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Posts tagged ‘awful’

Ultimate Recipe Showdown  

Ultimate recipe? Sure, if your definition of ultimate is “good enough for Fridays.”

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Possibly some of the worst marketing I’ve seen  

There was a time when I would have paid good money for a device that made kids become thoughtful and quiet when you pressed a smiley face button and zapped their brains with red laser beams. That’d be worth the money for sure.
It’s an ad for a $100 no-touch thermometer. I’m not sure why this [...]

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Carrots in McDonald’s wrapper taste better to pre-schoolers  

Sad. Shows you how effective marketing and advertising are.
Even carrots, milk and apple juice tasted better to the kids when they were wrapped in the familiar packaging of the Golden Arches… Study author Dr. Tom Robinson said the kids’ perception of taste was “physically altered by the branding.”
Study: Food in McDonald’s wrapper [...]

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Anticipating Awful Babies  

I just noticed the tag cloud over there on the sidebar (it shows the topics that have been written about here in alphabetical order) lists as the first three topics: Anticpating, Awful, Babies. That’d be a whole other blog. Anticpatingawfulbabies.com is available, if you’re so inclined. :-)

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24 Hour Fitness cracks me up  

They want us back and they’re willing to offer us a $0 initiation fee with an $80 processing fee to get started again. I’m going to hold out until they sweeten the deal. I hear if you wait another month they offer you $0 initiation fee, $0 processing fee, $0 activation, and only an $80 [...]

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